Pat--
I don't know how I missed this! Your client is right, it's full of life and lovely!
As for my own work-- I'm sort of bi-polar about it. I've learned to let go of things when they get to a certain degree of finish.... BUT always see things WRONG that could be fixed. . . and can endlessly second guess whether it's any good at all. Positive feedback goes a ways towards quieting some of those worries, and helping me know that I stopped at a reasonable point -- but look too long at
anything I've done and little things about it will start to bother me (keep those brushes away!)
